Dropper attachment for corn-planters.



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DRDPPEB ATTACHMENT FUR BURN PLANTERS.

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DRUPPER ATTAEHMENT F08 CORN PLANTERS.

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RICHARD EQASH AND THOMAS J. MCCOLLOUCH, OF NEVADA, MISSOURI.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,942, dated September 26, 1899.' Application filed June is, 1897. s al No. 641,390. (No model.)

To all whom it 711 001) concern:

Be it known that we, RICHARD E. ASH and Planters; and we do hereby declare the fol-, lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to in ake and use the same.

Our invention relates to corn-planters and its object is to provide a corn-planter that will operate without wire, chain, or rope, which will mark every hill when dropped, which will enable the driver to start from any place in the field, and which, when the dropping mechanism is raised,- is thrown entirely out of gear.

Our invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of our device. Fig. 2 is a rear view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a side'elevation thereof. I I

The numeral 1 indicates the back bar of a corn-plantenwhich is of known construction is in operation-2 e., the furrow-openers, &c.

Brackets 2,,loosely supported upon shaft 3, support or carry the back bar 1. Collars at serve to retain this shaft in the proper position. Walking-wheels 5, provided withtraction-spikes 6 and markers 7, are held upon saidshaft, being securely keyed thereto. A bevel-gear Sis also held upon said shaft at about the middle point thereof. A frame 9 supports a shaft, 10. A bevel -gear 11 is mounted upon the shaft 10 to mesh with the bevel-gear 8. A crank 12 is formed upon this shaft. The dropper-bar 13 of the machine has attached thereto a projection 14. A p'itman 15 connects said projection to said crank.

It will now be obvious thatas the machineis drawn forward the walking-wheels will rotatethe gear, and thus actuate the dropper "mechanism. By suitable change-gears thismay be regulated to give a stroke any definite numberof times during the revolution of the walking-wheels.

This attachment is adapted to be used upon .any corn-planter and is intended to take the place of the ordinary mechanism. In order to apply said attachment, all the ordinary mechanism operating the check-rower is removed. The attachment is then placed on the crossbar and the projecting bar secured to the dropping-bar.

' When it is desired to use the machine, the

driver assumes his seat and takes the desired position in the field, adjusts our attachment to working position, and crosses the field. He then turns around and drives to the proper position from the row just planted. During this turning the attachment is of course raised. When he has gotten to the proper place, he turns one of the Walking-wheels,

which is readily done from his seat, until the marker thereon points directly down and is parallel with the last two hills-planted. The attachment is then dropped and the process continued. Should the driver meet an ohstruction in the field, a similar process is adopted.

It'is obvious that'many minor changes may be made in the form of our device without departing from the material principles thereof. To do not therefore desire to confine ourselves to the exact form herein shown and described, but wish to include all such as properly come within the scope of our invention. r

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

-A corn-planter attachment consisting of the combination of a pair of walking-wheels havingtraction-spikes and space-markers, an axle or shaft to which said walkingwheels are keyed, brackets having bearings for the axlefor coupling the axlewith the back bar shaft mounted in said frame, apinion 'on the crank-shaft interineshing; with the beveled specification in the presence of two subscribgear on the Walking-Wheel shaft, and a piting witnesses.

man coupled at one end with the crank-shaft RICHARD E. ASH. and adapted for connection at the other end '1. J. MCOOLLOUOH. with the dropper-bar carried by the planter, itnesses:

substantially as described. JOHN L. BIRDSEY,

In testimony whereof We have signed this I JOHN B. HARRIS. 

